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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Tawana Kupe

Tawana Kupe publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Education, on topics such as Media Studies and Communication, ICT Impact and Policies and African history and culture studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-4866-524X OpenAlex
World rank
#2,751,696
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#11,798
of 29,826
Works
28
Citations
289
Citations per work
10.3
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 45% in Sociology and Political Science
Tawana Kupe

What does Tawana Kupe research?

Tawana Kupe's work is mostly in Social Sciences (65%), Engineering (8%).

Social Sciences: 18 works · 64.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 18 works · 64.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 20.8% of their workCommunication: 4 works · 14.6% of their workEducation: 4 works · 12.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 10.4% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 6.3% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 27.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 8.3% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 8.3% of their workMedia Technology: 2 works · 8.3% of their workTHEIR WORKTawana Kupe28works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences65%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1864.6%
  2. Everything else827.1%
    1. Engineering28.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  2. 2Communication15% of their works
  3. 3Education12% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations10% of their works
  5. 5Media Technology8% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tawana Kupe's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Economic Development, Telecommunications, Colonialism and Globalization.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Agenda Setting71 topic
  2. Media Framing71 topic
  3. Higher Education52 topics
  4. Quality Assurance52 topics
  5. Economic Development41 topic
  6. Telecommunications41 topic
  7. Colonialism31 topic
  8. Globalization31 topic
  9. Internationalization31 topic
  10. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  11. Bioinformatics21 topic
  12. Co-Creation of Curriculum21 topic
  13. Education21 topic
  14. Impact Investing21 topic
  15. Learning Object Repositories21 topic
  16. Open Educational Resources21 topic
  17. Social Impact Bonds21 topic
  18. Student-Staff Partnerships21 topic

Where does Tawana Kupe work?

Tawana Kupe's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Tawana Kupe have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 289 citations for Tawana Kupe, an h-index of 6, ranking #2,751,696 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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